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JULY 13, 2024

Storj announced a new era in distributed cloud innovation with the acquisition of Valdi. Storj is a leader in distributed cloud object storage, disrupting the $100 billion cloud storage market, delivering up to 90% cost savings and 90% less carbon emissions for customers. Valdi is the leader in on-demand high performance cloud computing (GPUs) widely used for AI training and inference in data-intensive industries like technology, research and life-sciences.

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Analytics Vidhya

JULY 13, 2024

Introduction Imagine you’re standing at the edge of a dense forest, each path leading in a different direction, and your goal is to find the most promising route to a hidden treasure. This scenario mirrors the fascinating approach of Tree of Thoughts in AI prompt engineering. Just like you’d weigh various trails, the Tree of […] The post Implementing the Tree of Thoughts Method in AI appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Hacker News

JULY 13, 2024

Hundreds of thousands of southeast Texas residents are entering the sixth day in a row suffering brutal heat without air conditioning and many are scrambling to find cool shelters, food, safe drinking water and health care resources.

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JULY 13, 2024

Introduction By incorporating visual capabilities into the potent language model GPT-4, ChatGPT-4 Vision, or GPT-4V, signifies a noteworthy breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence. With this improvement, the model can now process, comprehend, and produce visual content, making it a flexible tool suitable for various uses. The primary functions of ChatGPT-4 Vision, such as […] The post All About ChatGPT-4 Vision’s Image and Video Capabilities appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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JULY 13, 2024

A flying-car-like vertical takeoff aircraft created by Joby Aviation has completed a first-of-its-kind, 523 mile test flight using hydrogen power. The aircraft, which reportedly left only a trail of water vapor in its wake, is being pitched as a more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional gas powered jets for mid-range, regional travel.

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Towards AI

JULY 13, 2024

Author(s): Mélony Qin (aka cloudmelon) Originally published on Towards AI. Decoding NVIDIA’s AI + HPC and software + hardware innovation strategy NVIDIA’s relentless pursuit of innovation and excellence in AI and high-performance computing (HPC) is underpinned by several hidden assets that collectively fuel its billion-dollar AI vision. If you’ve been reading my blogs, you’d know that I always speak highly of NVIDIA for their greatness at building the art and science of hardware and software pla

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Towards AI

JULY 13, 2024

Author(s): Talib Originally published on Towards AI. I will start by describing why we need a vector search for RAG, and how vectors and vector databases work, and then focus on the Azure AI search. You might have used large language models like GPT-3.5, GPT-4o, or any of the other models, Mistral or Perplexity, and these large language models are awe-inspiring with what they can do and how much of a grasp they have of language.

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JULY 13, 2024

The reward amounts on offer by the Google VRP have undergone a major overhaul: We're increasing reward amounts by up to 5x (with maximum rewards of up to $151,515)!

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JULY 13, 2024

Last Updated on July 13, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Jonathan Bennion Originally published on Towards AI. Image created by the author Another of the dirty little secrets of AI systems (and the hype surrounding their future) are ongoing prompt injection issues. Not a new security issue, yet we will be dealing with this in every tool out there! How I hacked through Priceline’s AI tool It only took 2 minutes (and I have confirmation Priceline is currently fixing this).

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JULY 13, 2024

A smartphone’s unique Bluetooth fingerprint could be used to track the device’s user–until now. A team of researchers have developed a simple firmware update that can completely hide the Bluetooth fingerprint, eliminating the vulnerability.

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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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JULY 13, 2024

Last Updated on July 13, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Shenggang Li Originally published on Towards AI. Utilizing DDPG and SHAP for Pricing Strategies in RetailPhoto by Brooke Lark on Unsplash Retail pricing strategies are important for optimizing sales and profits. Effective pricing influences consumer behavior and maximizes revenue by considering demand, market conditions, and competition.

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JULY 13, 2024

Like millions of other irreverent young men, I would find my way to 4chan.org, which, like Hegel, was to later give birth to two formidable yet opposing political currents, and which, also like Hegel, was filled with nonsense, though in this case the nonsense was fully intended.

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JULY 13, 2024

Last Updated on July 13, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Serop Baghdadlian Originally published on Towards AI. Read 10x more relevant articles by building the most efficient system for tracking and organizing machine learning & engineering articles.Photo by Fujiphilm on Unsplash Have you ever felt that you’re not staying up to date with the latest innovations, architecture designs, and new tech in machine learning?

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Hacker News

JULY 13, 2024

It's been just over a year since Meta launched Threads, a microblogging platform built upon Instagram's foundation. While still in its infancy, the team has quickly added features that present itself as a viable alternative to its contemporaries, the most important being a TweetDeck-like desktop UI.

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Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

Towards AI

JULY 13, 2024

Author(s): Louis-François Bouchard Originally published on Towards AI. Efficient Strategies to Balance Convenience, Privacy, and Cost Note: this post was written by 3 ML & AI engineers behind the High Learning Rate newsletter. Let’s talk about an important topic: the privacy concern with large language models (LLMs). We (authors, 3 ML/AI engineers, and owners of the High Learning Rate newsletter) see a lot of clients taking overkill solutions because of privacy concerns.

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JULY 13, 2024

Here’s a gem from the archive of the NY Times. One day in September 1976, NY Times food critic Mimi Sheraton and Colonel Harland Sanders stopped into a Manhattan Kentucky Fried Chicken.

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JULY 13, 2024

Last Updated on July 13, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Lorentz Yeung Originally published on Towards AI. Picture generated by Dall-E. Two digital llamas racing against each other, one labeled ‘Gen 2’ and the other ‘Gen 3’ When beginning LLM operations, a key question is which model to use. As a fan of LLaMA models, I wondered if LLaMA 3 is necessarily better than LLaMA 2.

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Hacker News

JULY 13, 2024

Jelly Star - The World's Smallest Android 13 Smartphone The New Star of Jelly Series with Transparent Design and LED Light. Still Small, Yet Powerful. Introducing Jelly Star Discover Jelly Star, an elegant tiny smartphone with a transparent back panel, dynamic LED lighting, and advanced features packed into a credit card sized body. Gallery 3-Inch Display Jelly Star features an ultra-compact design with a 3-inch screen, just the size of a credit card.

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Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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JULY 13, 2024

Last Updated on July 13, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): John Loewen, PhD Originally published on Towards AI. Mapping historical shipwreck data from Harvard data set There are some terrific sources for data sets out there on the internet, including historical shipwreck data. One of the weekly updates I receive as part of expanding my knowledge on available datasets comes from Data is Plural: This site provides a weekly newsletter on interesting data sets.

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Hacker News

JULY 13, 2024

A visual walkthrough of the AlphaFold3 architecture, with more details and diagrams than you were probably looking for.

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JULY 13, 2024

Author(s): Satyajit Chaudhuri Originally published on Towards AI. Introduction Imagine if you could forecast future trends with the same ease that language models understand text. Whether you’re predicting stock prices, healthcare demands, or optimizing logistics, accurate time-series forecasting is crucial. Traditional methods like ARIMA struggle with modern data complexities, but deep learning has shown promise.

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Hacker News

JULY 13, 2024

First we discussed the fact that technical issues cause remote meetings to suck. Then, we discussed how even when there are no technical issues, remote meetings still suck. They suck because they exacerbate a problem called the caucus problem.

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Towards AI

JULY 13, 2024

Author(s): Youssef Hosni Originally published on Towards AI. Stay Updated with Recent Large Language Models Research Large language models (LLMs) have advanced rapidly in recent years. As new generations of models are developed, researchers and engineers need to stay informed on the latest progress. This article summarizes some of the most important LLM papers published during the First Week of July 2024.

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Hacker News

JULY 13, 2024

This past spring, Richard Bernstein investigated the questions he’d been asking his whole career—about right, wrong, and what we owe one another—one last time.

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JULY 13, 2024

Author(s): Mazen Ahmed Originally published on Towards AI. AI in Early Disease DetectionImage by Author I find it deeply fascinating how the development of mathematics, in particular algorithms, has touched almost every facet of human innovation. As we enter the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), over very short time periods, new uses of the technology are being discovered.

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JULY 13, 2024

Why and how do you notate music for modular synthesizers? Let's discuss the challenges, philosophical approaches, and advantages/disadvantages of notating electronic music.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Towards AI

JULY 13, 2024

Last Updated on July 14, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Eram Khan Originally published on Towards AI. In this article I explore if it is actually possible to beat the blackjack dealer using strategic thought. Of course, the underlying idea here is to show the use of simulation and how a game can be modeled mathematically. (But please do feel to try out any of below mentioned strategies if interested!

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Hacker News

JULY 13, 2024

A curated list of indie blogs that I follow and recommend. These blogs are written by individuals who share their thoughts, experiences, and knowledge on a variety of topics.

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JULY 13, 2024

I’m an AWS Serverless Hero, principal engineer at an AWS centric logistics company, and I build and maintain the AWS News Feed. It’s fair to say that I am very interested in everything AWS does. But I fear AWS is no longer interested in what I do.

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JULY 13, 2024

Long before the days of celebrity voices calling out directions while you drive, paper-based attempts at mobile mapping generated an intriguing array of proto-GPS systems, including this quirky pair of manual and automated moving map displays. As early as 1927, the Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator came with single-journey scrolls plugged into a wrist-wearable device.

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Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.